If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

— Rob Thurman

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our…

— Kenan Malik

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

— Frederick Douglass

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with…

— Harry S. Truman

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in…

— Samuel Richardson

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

— Frederic Raphael

I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils…

— John Quincy Adams

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or…

— Susan Sontag

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and…

— Jimmy Carter

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without…

— Robert Winston

I don't believe in moral victories. I don't think in pro ball they exist, and they shouldn't exist.

— Jason Witten

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not…

— Nathaniel Branden

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

— Claude Monet